![]() ![]() “And I think the utility of tanks and armour today has been recognised by lots of different people and armies. “The key reason for that is we continue to adapt to meet the challenges that we face.” “I think at every stage someone has suggested that something is going to come and replace the tank on the battlefield – that has proven to not necessarily be the case.” Colonel Ridgway (commander of RTR) during the Cambrai commemoration parade. The speech the article refers to is from Lt. What would make modern tanks irrelevant? How are they used on a modern battlefield? Have advances in other weapons technology nullified the effectiveness tanks once enjoyed? Granted the BBC article was designed for regular people and not tank nerds like me, so the specifics of this statement were not really gone into. I recently read an article on the BBC where the commander of the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) said that tanks are just as relevant now as they were 100 years ago. With the recently anniversay of the Battle of Cambrai (where tanks first saw action ever), a lot of news coverage has been centered around it. 3: How MBT Effectiveness is Being Reduced ![]()
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